Austin Thibeau
NMD 498
Design Guide
- The basic concept of this idea comes from a few of my passions, first of all my love for food and style publication has been one of my favorite hobbies since I was in elementary school. My study in studio art and graphic design, and my technology based studies in new media. After brainstorming with Ian Donnelly about this we came up with the idea of me disgninging a more advanced cookbook. One with AR triggers that will show you a video of the recipe being made if you need assistance with the recipe. There are a couple reasons I chose Bon Appetit as the magazine i wanted to work with for this capstone. Through my work I have a connection with a publisher for Bon Appetit, so i would be able to communicate with her if needed. And two, for every recipe written in Bon Appetit, there is also a video online showing you the step to make what you want. This would provide me with a very large amount of content to use for this project.
- One of the biggest values that I want to provide in this project and also believe are important for life is that people who have different backgrounds and experiences need to be connected in someway. Throughout history people with these differences have been put against each other and have been put in opposition. Although my project does not help with this on a global scale, my goal is to at least incorporate these values into work that is close to me. Connecting and online and analog audience.
- Aside from the following “measures” I am aware of how frustrating this may be for some people to execute while cooking, or it could be frustrating for older people to use more modern technology, or it may be boring for a young person to read a cookbook. Although this is not the most exciting implication of this technology, my hope is it can also inspire other projects in the future.
- My initial thought for Emotion is that there wouldn’t be much emotion for a cookbook, however by connecting the sophisticated and serious text with fun and casual video tutorials on how to make the recipes would create a casual and fun environment for people to cook in.
- Something that comes to my mind when cooking is how frustrating it can be if things don’t go perfectly or like i want them to it can be very frustrating. So I think my goal for this project is to redirect people’s attention. To make cooking and baking a casual and enjoyable activity.
- When it comes to sense making, I feel like that’s what this project is about. If you don’t have the sense or knowledge to complete the recipe then you can use the videos to assist you, rather than having to guess or to pull out your phone or laptop to search for the video or a solution.
- For decision making, i don’t see much emotion or moral resistance that would happen with this. The point of this project is not to persuade or change the intentions of anytone reading the cookbook.
- For social reasoning, i think this also plays into the idea of making cooking fun. In the videos that Bon Appetit provides, they have the same few amazing chefs make and explain the recipes. But the videos are much more than the food they make. The chefs have amazing personalities and personally as a viewer for a long time I have really developed a relation and respect for these chefs and I look forward to seeing these videos.
- For group dynamics, I don’t believe that this is something that depends on my project. Cooking alone or in a group or sharing videos is more up to the individual. I can only think that a group dynamic would be formed if I implemented some sort of community within the app to provide a group dynamic.
- One aspect that I am worried about and that I know I will need to test out and redesign a few times will be the way that the videos are displayed and helpful for the users. I want to provide people with the most convenient way to watch videos while cooking
- I feel that “brilliance” for humans is based in out ways of communication and emotion. And I think seeing and hearing and laughing with the chefs cooking the safe recipe as you is important for humans to experience.
- For this project I want to prove that my art and design studies have been useful and I can develop and design a successful project. By the fall new media night i would like to have the cookbooks and recipes designed and by the end of the year new media night i would like to showcase the AR technologies i have implemented into the cookbook.
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